Car-wheel.



S.- P. BUSH.

GAR WHEEL. I APPLICATION FILED APR.13, 1912.

1 ,O4=7,38O, Patented Dec. 17, 1912.

W"! NESSES INVENTOR wheel of the type above referred to,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL P. BUSH, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

GALE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 13, 1912. Serial No. 690,654.

Patented 'Decf17, 1912.

In securing car wheels to axles, the wheels are forced onto the axles under powerful pressure which will cause. the hubs unless properly reinforced, to stretch or expand and thus be without capacity to properly gri the axles, and this is particularly true with wheels wherein the web or plate of the wheel is in a plane at right angles to the axis of the wheel and adjacent to one end of the hub, and my invention consists in a the hub of which is provided at its inner end with an integral reinforcing rib encircling the hub.

The accompanying drawing is a view in transverse section of a wheel embodying my invention.

1 represents the hub, Qthe web or plate of the wheel and 3 the rim. I

The web or plate 2 is approximately fiat and in a plane at right angles to the axis of the wheel, and is integral with the hub at or adjacent one end of the latter. The

end of the hub adjacent plate 2, terminates the side edges of the of the hub in a plane between wheel, while the opposite end projects beyond the plane of the rim as clearly shown in'the drawing. the plate '2 may be reinforced by the ribs 4 cast integral with the parts. The plate have invented certain new,

the following to'be If desired or web of the Wheel' reinforces the outer end of the hub and supports it against a bursting pressure, as when mounting it on an axle, buti'with wheels-thus constructed the opposite end and major part of the hub is not so reinforced and my invention consists in providing the inner end of the hub with an integral reinforcing rib 5 which provides for increased gripping power when the Wheel is forced into position on the axle. Having the web or plate of the Wheel in a plane-at right angles to the axis'of the wheels, necessarily brings it nearer the outer end of the hub, and reinforces'that end against a bursting pressure, butthe other end being unsupported would naturally stretch and not have capacity were it not forthe rib 5 which prevents any stretching or expansion of the inner end of the hub.

the necessary gripping."

Having fully described, my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is j 1. As a new article of manufacture, a car wheel comprising a hub, plate and rim all 5 cast integral, the plate being adjacent one end of the hub, andreinforcing said end, f

and a peripheral rib reinforcing the. other end of said hub.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a car wheel comprising a hub, plate and rim all cast integral, the plate being adjacent one end of the hub and reinforcing said end, and

a'peripheral rib attached to the hub only i and reinforcing the other endof the latter.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this 1 specification in the presence of two subscribj ing witnesses.

SAMUEL P. BUSH.

Witnesses:

' ARNO EBERLEIN,

GEO. G. MERRING. 

